Microsoft China Accidentaly Shows Windows 9 Logo

Microsoft in China accidentally revealed the new Windows 9 logo. At a Weibo-account the presumably new logo was posted, it has been removed already again. Chinese site CNBeta noticed the logo with a text that also talked about Windows 9.

The logo shows the number 9 in perspective and does fit the Microsoft style TBH. There have been a lot of rumors that Microsoft will release Windows 9 as an early build at the end of this month or at the beginning of the next one.

Treshold is the code-name for Windows 9. Rumored is that the Startbar could return, there will be a new notification center. Miccrosoft will also pay more attention to desktop users by removing live tiles as an options and with the removal of the charms bar.

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#4904493 Posted on: 09/02/2014 11:02 AM
Reading other forums like MDL, that's not the real logo, just a mockup apparently

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#4904495 Posted on: 09/02/2014 11:08 AM
Oh no, more tiles...

Looks like Windows 7 untill 2020.

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#4904496 Posted on: 09/02/2014 11:09 AM
Obviously a Chinese mockup, as the logo is aimed at people on the left...

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#4904501 Posted on: 09/02/2014 11:19 AM
Oh no, more tiles...

Looks like Windows 7 untill 2020.

Nah, Ive got a good feeling about Win 9, I think MS have enough feedback and learned enough lessons to allow us to kill Metro on non touch PCs, which is also an already established rumour anyway, plus the start menu coming back

They've gotten rid of the people who forced Metro onto us too, so now they can fall back in line and provide an OS designed for PCs instead of tablets

As much as I like 8.1 with Metro disabled, if they succeed with Win 9 it would fall in line with their whole good bad good bad thing

#4904608 Posted on: 09/02/2014 02:42 PM
I don't care about the logo at all, as long as they bring back the true, one and only desktop mode as the core of this OS. I don't mind them implementing the metro UI, or those tiles, but hell, not as the main thing...
they were able to make windows RT for those portable devices, and win8 for the others, and it should be kept that way, only that win9 should be about a desktop, and winrt2 or whatever that crap would be called should be with metro UI. Well, that's just my opinion...

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#4904609 Posted on: 09/02/2014 02:44 PM
The logo needs MOAR windows!

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#4904628 Posted on: 09/02/2014 03:07 PM
Not that it matters but that really is an ugly logo, but it's likely fake.

As for W9 i would like it to just build on W8.1 but with yet more performance and security features, ideally build it around gaming and htpc applications.